Anti-War Committee
MEDIA ADVISORY
For Release: Friday, April 29, 2016
Press
Conference and Rally: Chicagoans Support resolution at Boeing shareholder meeting
to increase transparency in Arms Sales to Israel
Monday, May 2
8:15 a.m.
Field Museum,
South Steps
For more information: Joe Iosbaker
773-301-0109
On May
2, 2016, five Boeing Company shareholders will attend the annual meeting to
vote for and speak in support of a resolution which will require that the
corporation prepare a report detailing its arms sales to Israel.
The
sponsoring shareholders and supporting community organizations will come
together to demonstrate public support for transparency and accountability from
Boeing Company. Sarah Simmons of the
Anti-War Committee, and a Boeing shareholder, stated, “Our goal is to prevent shareholders
from being unwitting collaborators in human rights' and international law
violations committed with weapons Boeing has manufactured and sold to Israel.”
Simmons
added, “Given that Boeing enjoys significant tax advantages here in Chicago,
and that its stock is widely held in pension funds here and elsewhere, this is
an issue that is of concern to all Chicagoans.”
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